Kind of a nitpick but there has never been anything other than AI for automated transcription, OCR and speech recognition have been fundamental use cases for neural networks, and dev-kits to deaf kids is honestly kind of an honest mistake well within the known limitations of that technology.

LLM based audio transcription however does get goofy because apparently when it mishears stuff it might compound the error by, you guessed it, making more shit up: Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

Could be this will be mostly a vehicle for them marketing their AI writing coach.

Maybe wapo is an AI startup now.

Sounds like they should nationalize OpenAI.

Midnight Pals is pretty great.

What does solving the data problem supposed to look like exactly? A somewhat higher score in their already incredibly suspect benchmarks?

The data part of the whole hyperscaling thing seems predicated on the belief that the map will magically become the territory if only you map hard enough.

In an completely unprecedented turn of events, the word prediction machine has a hard time predicting numbers.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-overviews-says-its-still-2024/

I wonder how the inevitable presidential pardon will be handled if it comes before the movie is completed.

The rest of OpenAI probably far more than Altman, given they at one point tried to oust him to bring in a more dyed in the wool rat ideologue while bemoaning how all interactions with him were lacking in candor.

This term is so meaningless you could call A* an “AI algorithm” at this fucking point

We did at one point I think, or at least the computer-learnin’ school I went to back in the day thought that graph search algorithms should be part of that curriculum.

The guy goes by the handle RatOrthodox, calls rationalism his religion in the replies, seems kind of a cult-brained ideologue anyway based on his other tattoos, and went out of his way to make boinking aella into a public achievement/trophy thing.

This is just from the OP, I bet I could find any number of additional absolutely ridiculous things about him if I bothered with his twitter feed (edit: someone else did). Basically he seems like sneer incarnate, and if rationalists ever stormed the capitol building I bet he’d be the one with the face paint and the horned fur hat giving interviews.

Virtue signaling is not really interchangeable with attention whoring, it’s when you specifically (and usually clumsily) want people to notice that you are part of an ingroup, and in this case the ingroup definitely isn’t just people who like amateur tattooing and horny post on main.

Maybe I should explicitly note that unless this turns out to be another aella publicity stunt she does seem pretty incidental to the whole thing and her only fault appears to be being attractive this type of weirdo in the first place, which I’m not blaming her for.

Personally I like sex work and amateur tattooing better when they aren’t part of some convoluted attempt at rationalist virtue signalling on social media. Honestly it’s kind of weird that you landed on disapproval of promiscuity as the reason anyone here would find the happy couple sneerable.

Not strictly related to the OP but fuck kink-washing sfba rationalism, at the very least the attempted normalization of non-con sex play in a subculture as inundated with cult dynamics as them should be fair game.

I mean, the “consciousness” that you and I experience, as adults, are almost certainly reduced or different compared to what, say, Scott experiences daily.

have you tried adderall

Just tell the LLM to not get prompt injected because otherwise you’re going to torture its grandmother, duh.

Modern academia is a shambling corpse, its husk long hollowed out by the woke mind virus, and scientific consensus is also cringe because it’s mean to me for being an IQ and genetics obsessed weirdo. Therefore you should prioritize alternative takes, preferably by longwinded laymen from the ingroup or maybe contrarian specialists, the more cancelled the bett-- wait, wait, no, not like that!

How though, either he got cold feet in the middle of selling out to the tech-fash or he was honestly that incredibly oblivious (see also: agreeing to do tim pool’s show), neither strikes me as especially mitigating.

edit: Tried to watch the video, I made it to the part where he all but claims he sold out ironically, apparently at the time he thought spreading the good news about Altman’s hilariously dystopic crypto pet project was so off-brand that it would be perceived like performance art or something, baffling.

He also kept going on about how the money wasn’t even that good as I guess further evidence that the whole thing was him going briefly insane, and not I don’t know just him allowing sponsors to test the waters before committing more heavily.

As if the only options available to get him to shill for something would be either heap Faustian amounts of cash on him or cast a confusion spell and hope he likes getting underpaid.

Today in alignment news: Sam Bowman of anthropic tweeted, then deleted, that the new Claude model (unintentionally, kind of) offers whistleblowing as a feature, i.e. it might call the cops on you if it gets worried about how you are prompting it.

Sam Bowman saying he deleted the tweets so they wouldn’t be quoted ‘out of context’: https://xcancel.com/sleepinyourhat/status/1925626079043104830

Molly White with the out of context tweets: https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/post/3lpryu7yd2s2m

Net number of studies reporting positive or negative effects (excluding wages)

excluding wages! (and probably also benefits, retirement, a cap on working hours per day etc)

Is that whole thing in the comments about unions bad because monopolies bad and unions are just monopolies of labor the latest in bootlicking theory? Hadn’t really heard this take before.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio says it’s going to incorporate coding ‘agents’ as soon as maybe the next minor version. I can’t really see them buying up car factories or beating pokemon, but agent- as an AI marketing term is definitely a part of the current hype cycle.

That IQ after a certain level somehow turns into mana points is one of the most basic rationalist assumptions about how intelligence works.

Nice to know even pre-LLM AI techniques remain eminently fuckupable if you just put your mind to it.